Couch v. Couch

MOORE, Judge.

On June 29, 2007, during divorce proceedings involving Julie Orender Couch (“the wife”) and Ronald E. Couch (“the husband”), the Montgomery Circuit Court (“the trial court”) ordered the parties to preserve all of their jointly or individually owned assets. While that order was still in effect, the trial of the case commenced, but was not completed, on October 4, 2007; the trial court scheduled the remainder of the trial to take place on October 29, 2007. However, on October 7, 2007, before the trial could be completed, the husband died from injuries he received in an automobile…